Hi Gang,
It’s has been a while since you have heard from me. Tons of info in this email, please share with those that may be interested.
USPSA
We WILL be having our normal second Sunday match this coming Sunday. I will be out of town but Duane and Andy will be running the match. Thanks to them as always. There will not be Steel Challenge or Practice available at this match.
Sunday November 8
Registration 9
Walkthrough 9:30
Fee $20
6 Stages
We will not have a normal match on the second Sunday December (see below for a match on the 20th)
We may have the January match, maybe not. Its the week before the State Championship. (see below) Will let you know more in the coming month.
3 GUN
We WILL be having our 3 gun match this month. Thanks again to Duane and Andy as I will be out of town. Shocker! We will not have Action Steel or Practice available on this day.
Saturday November 22
Registration 9
Walkthrough 10
Fee $20
5 Stages
We likely will be having the December 3 gun match. It’s a couple days after Christmas so you can bring out your new toys. I’ll be in touch next month with more info. Also we have the A6 3 Gun coming back in March. More to come on that as well.
ZOMBIE MATCH Dec 20th Canceled – Not enough turnout.
CHARITY MATCH
On December 20 in place of the Zombie Match we will be hosting a charity USPSA match. We will shoot stages 1-11 of World Shoot XVII but using USPSA rules. I’ll figure the round count but probably 150 or so.
This will support The Rangers Scholarship Fund and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. These are two charities that USA supports and we would appreciate your help. Whether you can make the match or not I urge you to consider these in your charitable donations. I have been personally in contact with both organizations and feel confident the maximum amount of money goes to the cause. The cause in this case is helping families or our soldiers.
We will have some raffles and I will see about having pizza and beer or something after the match if there is interest.
Registration 9
Walkthrough 9:30
Fee $25
11 Stages
FLORIDA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
It will be back at USA next year. A little short notice as the club that was supposed to do it changed their mind. However I’ll assemble the A Team and we will put on an outstanding Championship as we always do. I am going to lobby for it to be here for 3 years so we can establish a pattern. Then it can migrate to another club after they have time to formulate a plan.
The match is January 16-18 and registration is already live on MatchSignUp.org. I built a page on our website for the match but haven’t populated it yet. Will have more info up there this week.
FLORIDA OPEN
Back again, awesome as ever. Registration is open for this as well on Match. And much more info will be coming on our site.
STAFF FOR MAJORS
One of my goals for this year is to better handle managing of Staff for matches. I’m thinking about an application process so I can track who I have and who I don’t rather than the free for all I’ve been using. I will be in touch soon with a solution.
CHANGES TO LOCAL MATCHES FOR NEXT YEAR
Here is my current vision but you are the customer and my main goal is to make you happy as well as creating more of you.
Steel Challenge despite my efforts has just not been successful or popular. We will not be holding regular SC matches in 2015. In many cases I will have some stages set up and they will be available for practice during normal match days like usual. I also plan to have local matches in the months preceding the National and World SC matches.
Action Steel is in the same boat. Although I personally think it’s super cool I’m obviously in the minority. So it too, will be suspended. We may have one or two on a limited basis but not regularly.
IDPA
I am considering starting an IDPA club. I must admit however IDPA HQ has not made it easy. We do not have enough local SO’s which are now required even for local matches. And last time I spoke to the AD there were no classes scheduled in central Florida. Frankly they just weren’t helpful in helping me get a new club started.
So that leaves me with a couple choices.
We can start an IDPA ‘like’ match using IDPA rules, targets, etc. Then when we have enough local support and interest I can probably get an instructor to our area for an SO class. Then we would have to have enough folks that wanted to become SO’s in order to run a local match according to the proper rules and then we could affiliate.
Or, we can start the USADPL Universal Shooting Academy Defensive Pistol League. This would be similar to IDPA in the lesser round count, less complexity of target arrangements, defensive gear and divisions, etc. But I could incorporate rules I think more realistic for tactical training or defensive use while keeping the marksmanship requirement and fun factor high. A couple thoughts would be no 10 round limit on mags. And incorporate some Action Steel type stages into the local match. I have many other ideas as well.
But like I said….you’re the customer. I’m interested in opinions. Also please share with any friends who may be more into IDPA or defensive shooting who might be interested. Thanks.
Have a great holiday season if I don’t see you. I’ll have much more info coming…hard to believe the season is about to start again!
Shoot safe.
